Introduction
The planning commission of America’s largest city issues an alarm. In a thick report on the transformation of the metropolis, the commission laments the region’s pattern of settlement on “urban fringes.” Development has “proceeded indiscriminately,” extending “into areas which are predominantly rura...
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| Published in | Laws of the Landscape p. 1 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Brookings Institution Press
01.04.1999
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The planning commission of America’s largest city issues an alarm. In a thick report on the transformation of the metropolis, the commission laments the region’s pattern of settlement on “urban fringes.” Development has “proceeded indiscriminately,” extending “into areas which are predominantly rural in character.” The “urban growth outside the city” is also taking “forms that do not harmonize with and may be injurious to the central community.”¹
This sounds a lot like today’s New Urbanists describing the ills of sprawl—but the words are those of the New York Regional Plan of 1929.² Concern about the relentless expansion of suburbs |
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| ISBN: | 0815760817 9780815760818 |